THE recently concluded International Karate Daigaku (IKD) World Cup and Camp in Toronto, Canada yielded positive results in the Masters division, says head of the Guyana Karate College Sensei Jeffrey Wong. 

The Masters team of Sensei Aubrey Bettencourt, Roland Fanfair and Kenrick Cheeks raked in several valuable performances that helped the GKC medal count.
Speaking to Chronicle Sport recently, Sensei Wong stated, “I’m surprised with the Masters team. They really shocked me. They performed well and they had the crowd going and they won the gold medal in the team Embu.”
They also took bronze in the team Kata.
Apart from the gold, the team also picked up silver in the team Kata, something one member Roland Fanfair says “was very astounding; we prepared really late. We spent a lot of time mostly training the kids so we really wrapped up our end of the training pretty late. However, I think that we did a great job over the short period of time that we did get to work on our moves.”
Sensei Bettencourt, another of the three-member team said, “We did some research on a lot of techniques and some changes that we have to have but I think all in all it was a good performance from us Masters.”
He indicated that they have also learnt new techniques moving forward and will strive to practise and pass on the knowledge gained from the 2015 edition of the tournament.
The team finished behind Trinidad and Tobago.
Guyana gained 38 gold medals for a second-place finish in comparison to Trinidad’s 46 while Barbados with 36 gold medals took third place. Overall, the GKC achieved a total of 84 medals. (Stephan Sookram)